National Affairs: Little Win

The Republican Governor of Ohio, backed with the full force of his
party's state machinery, last week won renominationbut only by
346,554 votes to 198,599 for an opponent who had pledged "not to lift
a finger" in active candidacy. The lackluster winner: 42-year-old
Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill; the loser: former Cincinnati
Mayor Charles P. Taft, who had filed only as a "standby" after O'Neill
suffered a mild heart attack (TIME, Feb. 10).

Part of the sizable Taft vote undoubtedly came from his membership in
Ohio's first political family. But another part came...